Blog Milestones

My blog is now over a year old. I began it with my first post in January of last year, and now, 195 posts later, I just hit the 10,000 hits mark.  I started this blog because I like to write, and, other than the occasional short story or expository paragraph for my kids at school, I don't have much occasion to do so.  So, for the heck of it, I created the occasion.  My mother also compiled my blog into a book using this site and I could not BELIEVE how thick the book was.  It was so much writing!  I hadn't realized how much I had done!

Since it's Spring Break, I've had some time to review my posts, and here are some of my favorites, including some of the goals I had set for myself:

• Making Charlie's Birthday Cake
• Coaching an Upward Basketball Team
• Why It's a Good Thing that Life Isn't Fair
• My Husband's Graduation
• Finding Out about Baby #2
• Adios-ing our Son's Binky
• My Trip to LA
• New Outlook on Teaching for Year 7
• Bed Rest...Ugh
• The Birth of our Baby Girl
• And Bringing her Home
• Christmas
• Goals for 2013

Keeping this chronicle of my life has been therapeutic.  Looking back, I find I get so wrapped up in what's going on in my own life that I forget to take time to think about the fact that life goes on outside of me and mine.  It's important to remember that life is bigger than just me.